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flu·ent

[floo-uhnt]
adjective
1.
spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
2.
able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily: a fluent speaker; fluent in six languages.
3.
easy; graceful: fluent motion; fluent curves.
4.
flowing, as a stream.
5.
capable of flowing; fluid, as liquids or gases.
6.
easily changed or adapted; pliant.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin fluent- (stem of fluēns) flowing, present participle of fluere; see -ent

flu·en·cy, flu·ent·ness, noun
flu·ent·ly, adverb
non·flu·en·cy, noun
non·flu·ent, adjective
non·flu·ent·ly, adverb
non·flu·ent·ness, noun
o·ver·flu·en·cy, noun
o·ver·flu·ent, adjective
o·ver·flu·ent·ly, adverb
o·ver·flu·ent·ness, noun
trans·flu·ent, adjective
un·flu·ent, adjective
un·flu·ent·ly, adverb


1, 2. Fluent, glib, voluble may refer to a flow of words. Fluent suggests the easy and ready flow of an accomplished speaker and is usually a term of commendation: a fluent and interesting speech. Glib implies an excessive fluency divorced from sincerity or profundity; it often suggests talking smoothly and hurriedly to cover up or deceive, not giving the hearer a chance to stop and think; it may also imply a plausible, prepared, and well-rehearsed lie: He had a glib answer for everything. Voluble implies the overcopious and often rapid flow of words characteristic of a person who loves to talk: She overwhelmed him with her voluble answer. See also eloquent.
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fluent (ˈfluːənt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  able to speak or write a specified foreign language with facility
2.  spoken or written with facility: his French is fluent
3.  easy and graceful in motion or shape
4.  flowing or able to flow freely
 
[C16: from Latin: flowing, from fluere to flow]
 
'fluently
 
adv

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fluent
1580s, from L. fluentem (nom. fluens), prp. of fluere "to flow," from PIE *bhleugw-, extended form of from PIE *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cf. L. flumen "river;" Gk. phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of base *bhel- (2); see
bole. Used interchangeably with fluid in Elizabethan times. Related: Fluently
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